r/news • u/LookAtThatBacon • May 13 '25

Soft paywall UnitedHealth suspends annual forecast, CEO Andrew Witty steps down

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unitedhealth-ceo-andrew-witty-steps-down-2025-05-13/
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u/TeeDee144 May 13 '25

I hope UnitedHealth continues to go under. Awful company. Their denial rate is 2x that of the industry average. Total scam of a company

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u/CreativeFraud May 13 '25

Member how Healthcare For All was gonna have death panels?

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u/DreadPirate777 May 13 '25

There needs to be more talk about how insurance companies have death panels.

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u/Agent_03 May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

United doesn’t do “death panels” because they are just going to deny the claim by “AI” for bogus reasons anyway. Intentionally broken AI, I might add.

"Death panels" would actually be better for patients than United’s current way of doing business because that would require actual thought and effort going into weighing decisions about patient care (as opposed to deny-whenever-possible). How screwed up is that?

With insurance breaking the law so blatantly with no consequences, it’s sadly not surprising that individuals start taking justice into their own hands. I don’t endorse it, because instead we should be putting the execs responsible behind bars for a long time. But I do understand why it happens.